How do you shorten an AVI file

[Cfly]

I have a xvid movie i want to burn onto a cd, but it is 705mb, and the disc is 700mb. I tried burning in toast 6 titanium and using the mac os burner options and it says not enough space. Is there any way to take a few seconds off the video to get the file size to 700mb?

thanks

 

[~Shard~]

Import it into iMovie and edit it? Otherwise FCE/FCP would do the trick as well. No shrink utilities come to mind off the top of my head, not to shrink a divx file at least... I haven't tried this type of fuinction on my copy of Toast 7, but it does have divx support and Popcorn built in, that might be an option too...

 

[Cfly]

Import it into iMovie and edit it? Otherwise FCE/FCP would do the trick as well. No shrink utilities come to mind off the top of my head, not to shrink a divx file at least... I haven't tried this type of fuinction on my copy of Toast 7, but it does have divx support and Popcorn built in, that might be an option too...

I get a disc space error when i try to import it into Imovie HD for some reason. I have over 10 gigs of free space. I dont have toast 7 or final cut either, anyone else have any ideas?

 

[aussie_geek]

Re-encode it to fit it on one cd using ffMpegx - a free app. ffmpegx can do wonderful things with video.

ffmpegx

aussie_geek

 

[~Shard~]

Re-encode it to fit it on one cd using ffMpegx - a free app. ffmpegx can do wonderful things with video.

ffmpegx

aussie_geek

Good call, can't believe I forgot about that handy little app.

 

[skimaxpower]

re-encoding will work, but the quality will suffer.

Other options are:
- buy a 750mb CD (they're out there if you look.)
- zip the file with stuffit. Even if it only shaves off 1%, you'll be under 700mb.

 

[risc]

ffMpegx - a free app.

Why does everyone here keep saying ffmpegX is free? It's shareware, well worth the money too.